Trump doesn’t do intersectionality
just searing!
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We can’t get into Trump’s head here. He may be feigning numbness to the nuances of racist as a power ploy. Or he may genuinely not perceive the racism in his current rhetoric. I suspect he may not, for the simple reason that to imagine how he would feel about a straight-talking Finn in Congress would require a thought experiment, and nothing the man has ever said or done suggests the remotest inclination or ability to process layers, hypotheticals, or subtlety. A man clueless enough to accidentally give away to a national television reporter that he fired James Comey to detract from the investigation of his ties to Russia doesn’t do intersectionality. 1
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links: racist ideas system one system two Daniel Kahneman behavioral economics
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Reading this now and looking back on the idea of cancel culture, I’m curious where in the spectrum of use the word cancelable sits?
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Many of us hear this attack as saying that the four embody a fundamental otherness, and their true membership as “one of us” is fragile and even cancelable. 1
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links: linguistics cancel culture beyond the pale Google ngram
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MOC: [[Words MOC]]
When I hear stories like these, I definitely think about the broader social injustices we’re ignoring in lieu of the virtue signaling. Surely language is a place to start and it certainly matters, but aren’t there far worse systematic injustices that we could more directly focus on? In the Pareto principled view, the virtue signaling is part of the 80% we should ignore while we focus on the more important 20% issues.
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This episode represents a pattern in the letters, wherein it is white students who are “woker” than their Black classmates, neatly demonstrating the degree to which this new religion is more about virtue signaling than social justice. 1
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links: social justice racist ideas priorities
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Here’s a place were those who cry capitalism will save us should be shouting the loudest!
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And federal agriculture aid withholds subsidies from farmers who switch to drought-resistant crops, while paying growers to replant the same ones that failed. 1
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links: climate crisis farm subsidies [[Food MOC]] policy
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We definitely need to quit putting good money after bad. How can we motivate people not to rebuild or move to these poor places?
Does behavioral economics have any hints? #openquestion
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The federal National Flood Insurance Program has paid to rebuild houses that have flooded six times over in the same spot. 1
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links: climate crisis sunk cost fallacy flooding policy
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Intergenerational social problems here; we should be able to learn from the past and not repeat our mistakes.
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The places migrants left behind never fully recovered. Eighty years later, Dust Bowl towns still have slower economic growth and lower per capita income than the rest of the country. Dust Bowl survivors and their children are less likely to go to college and more likely to live in poverty. Climatic change made them poor, and it has kept them poor ever since. 1
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links: climate crisis history economics poverty
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